In addition, Gamestop purchasers get an exclusive decal set, featuring Ryu, Wolverine, Deadpool and Dante, that isn’t part of the regular limited edition. Capcom also confirmed a release date for Marvel vs. Capcom 3 today, and the game is coming sooner than you might have suspected.

Originally slated for Spring 2011, the game is now planned for a February 15th, 2011 launch for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America and February 18th in Europe.

Why would they force mandatory patches, that is just rotten.The fighters I have on the ps3, well, didnt have DLC. I avoided SFIV (I heard people are brutally intense online, so I avoided getting it), IM still struggling through BlazBlue 1, Naruto UNS1 and UNS2 didnt have DLC characters.

Im only interesting in MvC3 because there is huge hype behind it and I feel left out if I dont play it

Exkaiser

“Why would they force mandatory patches”
Uh, so everyone has the same version of the game? You can’t very well play with someone using a different version, that would be a mess.

MemeticRichard

Dude…don’t even bother lol.

Zal_Yagun

Most people don’t know what patches do as console games don’t have changelogs unless you check their sites, but these patches would basically either balance the game, fix problems, or prevent gamebreaking exploits.

For fighting games, patches would make broken characters stronger or weaker, for much fairer fights or add new characters without releasing a new game. Blazblue dlc character is Paid content but patches allow that character to be fought againist without buying her. I think you have a choice on the xbox to patch or not, but you should. Doesn’t take long to

Aara_Malik_Davoodi

On xbox live, if you don’t download the patch, it won’t let you play that game online. that way everyone is on the same playing field

GamerKT

“Im only interesting in MvC3 because there is huge hype behind it and I feel left out if I dont play it”
That’s a stupid reason.

As I think I greatly detailed awhile back, goodness begets popularity, therefore this game is popular so it must be good. If I didnt base my game purchases on games that were hyped or popular, than my library of games would really only contain Naruto games, racing games, and a rare RPG or two.

Im rather extremely conservative in an approach to choosing what games to buy, so its easy to just ride the hypemobile and buy what seems good based on popularity.

Coming to this site introduced me to different games and changed my wholly graphics based viewpoint on games…

GamerKT

“therefore this game is popular so it must be good.”
That’s not how the entertainment business works at all, dude.

Oh for crissakes. It isn’t rotten. It prevents the additional characters from splitting the online play completely. Otherwise, if you didn’t buy the character, you wouldn’t even be able to play against people who did. And that would be just stupid. It’s bad enough if I play an action game, get an invite from a friend, and then get a message telling me I can’t play on that map because I don’t have the DLC. It would KILL a fighting game if the same thing were to happen on it.

Was hoping they revealed the Collectors Edition soon, wanted to pre-order for a long while. It’s really good deal compared to some of Capcom’s other Collectors Edition(SFIV, RE5 were pretty crap imo) plus it’s just $10 extra. I’m expecting a lot of DLC for this game if Jill and Shuma are released 4 weeks after the gate. I don’t care as long as I long as I get Gene, Phoenix or John Talbain in one of them.

In a game like the MvC series, you won’t be able to fit all the characters you want in even if you wanted to……MvC2 only had 56 characters because 90% were from past games. Fans always want more characters so DLC is basically a given “and” a wish for this game. I’ve seen a list that people are saying legit and if it’s real, basically 21(22 if new Jill plays differently) new characters made it into the MvC series with 17 of them being completely new….that’s a LOT of characters in a sequel of fighting game if you compare to some others that usually gets around 2-6.

Zal_Yagun

Since now it’s confirmed the game will have DLC, people need to crash capcom’s servers with a Flood of Requests.Dammit Capcom add Gene to make a clover trifecta, and Masamune Date to add millions to your Japanese salesAnd Iron fist and … Someone else marvel to match the one eyed dragon of oshuu (I would say wolverine… But yeah)

I really want the Collector’s Edition for PS3, but it appears that it’s in one of those bigger DVD-sized boxes, like the Limited Editions of Lords of Shadow and Dragon Age: Origins had. I don’t understand why companies don’t stay with the standard Blu-Ray sized packaging when making PS3 special editions. It worked just fine for the steel case for my DMC4 Special Edition. I mean, it’s only another $10, so it would’ve been worth it.

Oh well, I guess this means I have to pay for the 2 characters separately.

Souji Tendou

So…. the hoax news long ago became true, Zero IS in MvC 3.
Wondered if Capcom decides to put him in because of that news, lol.
Anyway, can’t wait to play as him.